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Republicans Propose Limiting Obama Climate Plan in Appropriations

"House Republicans proposed cutting the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by a third and denying funds for a key part of President Barack Obama's plan to combat global warming."

"The House Appropriations committee's panel that oversees the EPA will consider cutting $2.8 billion from the agency's 2014 budget, and prohibit the administration from spending on greenhouse-gas rules for power plants, the centerpiece of Obama's climate plan. The budget for the year starting Oct. 1, which will get a vote tomorrow in the subcommittee, also would bar the EPA from imposing new curbs on sulfur in gasoline and on the use of water by power plants. ...

House Republicans are seeking to limit the president's efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, which scientists say are causing global warming. While the measures with the restrictions have little chance of being adopted in the Democratic-led Senate, they underscore efforts administration critics are considering to head off or slow the EPA's regulation."